INTERVENTION

In international law. Intervention is such an interference between two or more states as may (according to the event) result in a resort to force; while mediation always is, and. is intended to. be and to continue, peaceful only. Intervention between a sovereign and his own subjects is not justified by anything in international law; but a remonstrance may be addre ed to the sovereign in a proper case. Brown. In English ecclesiastical law. 'rhe proceeding of a third person, w,ho, not· being originally a party to the suit or proceeding, but claiming an interest in the subject-matter in dispute, in order the better to protect such interest, interposes his claim. 2 Chit. Pr. 492; 3 Chit. Commer.. Law, 633; 2 Hagg. Const. 137; 3 Phillim. Ecc.. Law, 586. In the civil law. The act by which a J third party demands to be received as a party in a suit pending between other persons. The intervention is made either for the purpose of being joined to the plaintiff, and K to claim the same thing he does, or some other thing connected with it; or to join the defendant, and with him to oppose the claim · of the plaintiff', which it is his interest to defeat. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt. 1, c. 2, § 7, no. 3. L In practice. A proceeding in a suit or action by which a third person is permitted by the court to make himself a party, either joining the plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the complaint, or uniting with the defendant in resisting the claims of the plain- M [s. 657]